family compositae

What does family compositae mean?

family compositae means "plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia".

What is another word for family compositae?

Close synonyms include Compositae, Asteraceae, family Asteraceae, aster family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family compositae a common word?

family compositae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for family compositae come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.